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It has actually been almost 2 years now because video game market veteran Phil Harrison left Google following the implosion of the business’s Stadia cloud video gaming service. The passage of time hasn’t stopped one business from taking benefit of this week’s Game Developers Conference to poke enjoyable at the erstwhile video gaming executive for his supposed mistreatment of designers.
VGC identified an obvious signboard in San Francisco’s Union Square Monday including the overinflated, entirely bald head of Gunther Harrison, the imaginary Alta Interglobal CEO who was just recently exposed as the blatantly satirical villain in the approaching video game Vengeance of the Savage PlanetA big message atop the signboard asks passersby– consisting of the 10s of thousands in the area for GDC–“Has a Harrison fired you lately? You might be eligible for emotional support.”
Google’s Phil Harrison discusses the Google Stadia controller at GDC 2019.
Google’s Phil Harrison speaks about the Google Stadia controller at GDC 2019.
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While Gunther Harrison most likely hasn’t fired any GDC participants, the notoriously bald Phil Harrison was accountable for the shooting of lots of designers when he closed down Google’s short-term Stadia Games & & Entertainment (SG&E) publishing imprint in early 2021. That shutdown shocked a great deal of recently out of work video game designers, maybe none more so than those at Montreal-based Typhoon Games, which Google had actually obtained in late 2019 to make what Google’s Jade Raymond stated at the time would be “platform-defining exclusive content” for Stadia.
On the really exact same day that Journey to the Savage Planet released as a Stadia special, the designers at Typhoon discovered themselves unemployed, together with the rest of SG&E. By the end of 2022, Google would close down Stadia completely, blindsiding a lot more video game designers.
Do not forgive, do not forget
After being released by Google, Typhoon Games would reform as Raccoon Logic (thanks in big part to financial investment from Chinese publishing giant Tencent) and reacquire the rights to the Savage Planet franchise. And now that the next video game because series is set to release in May, it appears the designers still have not completely overcome how they were dealt with throughout Google’s short venture into video game publishing.
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